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ISBN: 0252024486

ISBN13: 9780252024481

Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times

Name: Rich Media...: Deep Insights Into Serious Problems
Item: Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times
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By Robert W. McChesney

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Book Overview

Addresses the corporate media explosion and the corresponding implosion of public life that characterizes our times.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0252024486

ISBN13:9780252024481

Release Date:August 1999

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Length:448 Pages

Weight:1.62 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.0" x 9.6"

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Communication & Media Studies Democracy Education & Reference Ideologies & Doctrines Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Words, Language & Grammar

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Rated 5 stars
Rich Media...: Deep Insights Into Serious Problems

By Thriftbooks.com User, February 1, 2000

Few books draw the much deserved praise heaped on Robert McChesney's trenchant analysis of U.S. mainstream media, Rich Media; Poor Democracy. The book's champions include Moyers, Chomsky, Zinn, Ehrenreich, Nader, Wellstone, Bagdikian, Hightower and others. It was from reading writings such as theirs that I had thought myself well informed on the negative effect that the mass media have on our politics, culture and freedoms...

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Democracy and the Corporate Media: A Brilliant Critique

By Thriftbooks.com User, January 14, 2000

"Rich Media, Poor Democracy" is the most important recent book for anyone concerned with the real world of democracy under corporate capitalism in the year 2000. In a detailed, substantive, highly-readable study, McChesney explores how corporate control of the mass media shapes and constrains news and culture, sharply limits real freedom of the press, and undermines popular self-government as a result. McChesney shows...

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MEDIA WINS, PUBLIC LOSES

By Thriftbooks.com User, January 9, 2000

This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the current decrepit state of our media and how it got that way.Robert W. McChesney builds a most convincing case that media conglomeration, de-regulation and "hypercommercialism" are having a devastating effect on participatory democracy. Media ownership is more concentrated than ever -- reaching oligopolistic proportions -- and serious coverage and debate...

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Invaluable Information and Analysis About Media and Society

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 22, 1999

"Rich Media, Poor Democracy" is different than the usual media criticism in several important ways. It is accessible and readable. It is relevant and timely. It is populist rather than elitist. And the conclusions are irrefutable rather than subjective or interpretive. Anyone who is interested in why our media and entertainment sources are the way they are, especially in these rapidly changing times, has to read this book...

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Highly readable, lucid and impassioned

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 19, 1999

Bob McChesney's new book is an incisive and highly readable analysis of the relationship between the media and our political culture, and should be required reading for anyone who is puzzling over some of the most pressing questions of the day linked to citizenship and the future of democracy. With his characteristic attention to history and media scholarship, McChesney asks whether it is possible for our society to realize...

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